Cory A. DeCresenza

Recognition

Upstate New York Super Lawyers, Rising Star, 2014-2023

The Rising Stars list recognizes no more than 2.5 percent of attorneys in each state. To be eligible for inclusion in Rising Stars, a candidate must be either 40 years old or younger, or in practice for 10 years or less.

Representative Matters

• Cory was involved in the New York Court of Appeals’ decision in Youngjohn v. Berry Plastics (2021) in which a carrier’s liability for a posthumous scheduled loss of use was reduced to the accrued portion of the award capped by reasonable funeral expenses under the intricate framework of Section 15 of the Workers’ Compensation Law.
• Cory has additionally achieved many favorable outcomes at the Appellate Division, Third Department. In Matter of Coll v. Cross Country Construction (2022), he successfully defended an outcome in which the claimant’s indemnity awards were suspended as a result of claimant’s lost time being related due to a COVID-related downsizing as opposed to the claimant’s compensable injury.
• In Matter of Richards v. Allied Universal (2021), Cory successfully maintained the denial of an injury claim for lack of timely notice under Section 18 and lack of credible evidence of a causally-related injury.
• In Matter of Scriven v. Davis Ullmer Sprinkler Company (2020), he achieved an affirmance of a Board reversal in which a claim was disallowed as outside the scope of employment when the claimant was injured in a motor vehicle accident with co-workers on the way to an informal lunch.